Gujarat
government to promote yoga as cure for diabetes, mental disorders

Written
by RITU SHARMA | Ahmedabad

To
be flagged off as a pilot project this month, the disease-oriented
yoga sessions would be held at ayurvedic hospitals.

Indian
Express. Apart from trained yoga teachers, a team of AYUSH
doctors would scrutinise the applications for a medical history
and status to decide whether to allow them to attend the yoga
sessions or not.

Written
by RITU SHARMA | Ahmedabad

The
promotion for yoga in Gujarat has not ended with the Yoga
Day celebrations. Even after June 21, yoga is set to be promoted
across the state through the department of AYUSH, the Lakulish
Yoga University and various other education institutes.

After
actively promoting yoga and training people in the wake of
International Day for Yoga (IDY), the department of AYUSH
has decided to push yoga not only as a mind and body fitness
module, but also as a cure for various diseases.

To
be flagged off as a pilot project this month, the disease-oriented
yoga sessions would be held at ayurvedic hospitals in Ahmedabad,
Patan, Rajkot and Limdi (Dahod). Depending upon the response,
it would be replicated in the rest 34 ayurvedic hospitals
in the state.

This
time, we want to take yoga a step ahead from fitness and spread
awareness among the public that it could cure various lifestyle
disorders like diabetes, high blood pressure, breathing problems
and even various mental problems. The state government approval
has already been received for this project, said Dr
Kandarp Desai, director states department of AYUSH.

Apart
from trained yoga teachers, a team of AYUSH doctors would
scrutinise the applications for a medical history and status
to decide whether to allow them to attend the yoga sessions
or not.

Unlike
regular yoga camps, this would be only once a week and carried
out for a year. The department of AYUSH would rope in specialised
yoga instructors as well as take help from various NGOs in
spreading awareness on this disease-oriented camp, confirmed
Dr Desai. Modalities would be worked out in a day or
two as we want to start this in July, he added.

Recently,
the department of AYUSH had organised a six-day yoga camp
at Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad. Nearly 3,000 participants
took free of cost yoga training in the camp.

1.
Yoga sessions for civil service aspirants and government employees:
The Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA)
for the first time is offering two separate yoga courses 
for both its students and the general public. The institute,
which offers various training programmes for aspirants of
central and state civil service examinations as well as mid-career
training to government employees, included yoga too in its
training module from July 1.

For
the general public, it would be on the first-come-first-serve
basis as we have a limited capacity of 100 participants. Beyond
that, any interested person have to wait. While the idea of
introducing this course for the students and employees staying
at the institute hostel is their physical and mental well-being,
for the public, it is to open the campus continued »